Can’t stop EV until 2028, Biden has the changes in play, if he gets 2nd term it’s all over for gas vehicles. I always thought life was about choices, now I know it’s about the choices that the government decides for me. I do this exact same thing everyday with my children choosing what they want for dinner. Lol
In the industrial production chain of hydrocarbons (and mining), the most ‘dirty’ and water-intensive operations are all the way upstream, in the exploration & production segment.
Then, next most polluting is the processing and refining segment.
Next comes commercial utility feedstock.
Yet further down the line in terms of pollution ranking are distribution i.e. midstream transport (like pipelines). Somewhere around this level will probably rank pollution from diesel fueled marine vessels.
Then way down at the very bottom of the chain, orders of measure more negligible in terms of greenhouse gases / combustion pollution, ranks the exhaust from personal end-user (or even organizational) motor fuel.
Also, it seems to me, pollution from hydrocarbon-based plastics are far more of an emergent issue environmentally whereas greenhouse gas emissions cannot be significantly altered by any mud-covered a-holes in Imperial Vichy D.C. targeting me & my V-twin motorcycle.
No government, no NOC, no entity EVER will stop producing hydrocarbons from the earth. No merchant marine will ever stop requiring diesel. Not until there literally is no more. If there were no more humans on earth, or nobody with the thumbs to operate a production rig, they’d still be producing on automation down here on the surface, guided from some other location in the solar system. Hydrocarbons are one of the most valuable commodity in the solar system. So it’s a good thing there are planets full of hydrocarbons (besides our own home base) orbiting our sun.
Putting this nonsense upon the shoulders of end-user American motorists is blatant class warfare kicking down, evidently for the purpose of eliminating the bottom 99.9 percent of all that is holy. In my opinion.
“White House was serious about speeding up this transition, it might consider eliminating the 25 percent tariff on cars built in China…”
Chinese EV manufacturers have quickly taken over the market in Mexico. Investing massive amounts of pesos building facilities unheard of since the big-three auto makers left to Mexico under NAFTA.
There are currently four Chinese EV manufacturers poised on the other side of the US border (BYD, Foton, JAC Motors, and Shacman) waiting for “the big guy“ to drop those 25% tariffs.
When Biden wins reelection the Chinese will flood cheap EV’s into the United States (Chinese EV cars start at $11,000 retail), which will absolutely destroy the US auto market, including maverick manufacturers like Tesla.
Can’t stop EV until 2028, Biden has the changes in play, if he gets 2nd term it’s all over for gas vehicles. I always thought life was about choices, now I know it’s about the choices that the government decides for me. I do this exact same thing everyday with my children choosing what they want for dinner. Lol
In the industrial production chain of hydrocarbons (and mining), the most ‘dirty’ and water-intensive operations are all the way upstream, in the exploration & production segment.
Then, next most polluting is the processing and refining segment.
Next comes commercial utility feedstock.
Yet further down the line in terms of pollution ranking are distribution i.e. midstream transport (like pipelines). Somewhere around this level will probably rank pollution from diesel fueled marine vessels.
Then way down at the very bottom of the chain, orders of measure more negligible in terms of greenhouse gases / combustion pollution, ranks the exhaust from personal end-user (or even organizational) motor fuel.
Also, it seems to me, pollution from hydrocarbon-based plastics are far more of an emergent issue environmentally whereas greenhouse gas emissions cannot be significantly altered by any mud-covered a-holes in Imperial Vichy D.C. targeting me & my V-twin motorcycle.
No government, no NOC, no entity EVER will stop producing hydrocarbons from the earth. No merchant marine will ever stop requiring diesel. Not until there literally is no more. If there were no more humans on earth, or nobody with the thumbs to operate a production rig, they’d still be producing on automation down here on the surface, guided from some other location in the solar system. Hydrocarbons are one of the most valuable commodity in the solar system. So it’s a good thing there are planets full of hydrocarbons (besides our own home base) orbiting our sun.
Putting this nonsense upon the shoulders of end-user American motorists is blatant class warfare kicking down, evidently for the purpose of eliminating the bottom 99.9 percent of all that is holy. In my opinion.
“White House was serious about speeding up this transition, it might consider eliminating the 25 percent tariff on cars built in China…”
Chinese EV manufacturers have quickly taken over the market in Mexico. Investing massive amounts of pesos building facilities unheard of since the big-three auto makers left to Mexico under NAFTA.
There are currently four Chinese EV manufacturers poised on the other side of the US border (BYD, Foton, JAC Motors, and Shacman) waiting for “the big guy“ to drop those 25% tariffs.
When Biden wins reelection the Chinese will flood cheap EV’s into the United States (Chinese EV cars start at $11,000 retail), which will absolutely destroy the US auto market, including maverick manufacturers like Tesla.
Be careful what you wish for.